Three years ago, conflict erupted in Sudan, and its toll continues to be devastating. The crisis has caused profound human suffering and dismantled the systems households once relied on to absorb shocks. This episode explores an emerging solution: the Shared Distribution Network (SEND), designed by CGAP and the Cash Consortium of Sudan to cut delays and improve cost-effectiveness.

This study analyzes the Bank’s institutional trajectory throughout the years of conflict, focusing on the strategic decisions that strengthened its operational resilience, risk management practices, and service continuity for the most vulnerable segments, particularly women, youth, and micro-entrepreneurs.

This compendium is a practical guide and call to action for G20 countries and partners to expand the use of risk transfer solutions that provide faster, fairer financial protection before and after climate events.

Experience in Yemen shows how credit guarantees can build lasting resilience, serving as a bridge between emergency response and sustainable development.

Financial tools including insurance and recovery lending are key for improving microfinance clients’ resilience.

This blog highlights how FinEquity members are bridging sectors to boost women’s climate resilience through financial services that support adaptation and long-term recovery.

This blog explores how women are bearing the brunt of climate change crises, why financial access is essential for fostering women’s and girls’ resilience and prosperity and how for gender-responsive financial approaches to be most effective, they must be supplemented by non-financial interventions.

This blog summarizes cross-cutting findings from a series of case studies highlighting Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), Village Enterprise’s and SEWA’s climate-smart innovations from the FinEquity Community that use financial coupled with non-financial interventions that are seeing to improve women’s resilience to climate events. What are we learning?

Climate insurance is crucial for building resilience and providing financial protection against climate shocks, but it cannot effectively function in isolation. This blog analyzes how the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India works with low-income communities using a comprehensive approcach in integrating insurance with complementary financial and non-financial services.